Thursday, February 23
Fables of the Deconstruction
British director Michael Winterbottom attempts to adapt an unfilmable novel.
As soon as word of Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story began circulating, a directive from the Movie Writers’ Guild decreed that the film’s source, 18th-century writer Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of ...
OUTSIDE: Wild Olympian
A tribute to Bill Johnson, the greatest American ski racer of them all.
In 1984, I was a foul-mouthed 12-year-old California exile living in the snow-white, Mormon enclave of Sandy, Utah. My father’s transfer to this Salt Lake City suburb a year earlier had marooned my mother and ...
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Where to find or find out about green building supplies.
As the demand for healthy buildings grows, resources on how to do it are quickly becoming more accessible. In fact, according to Sharon Sarris, Monterey Bay co-chair of the US Green Building Council, a database ...
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Horse Heaven
A north turn off Laureles Grade onto Rinconada Drive presents a gently serpentine route above rising and dipping acreage of Woodside Estate, with valley to sky views in three directions. So few homes are seen ...
Letters
VERY INTERESTING, BUT STUPID The cover story about autism by Raul Vasquez was interesting, and almost well done. I was even beginning to think that the writer had done a proper job of researching the ...
Treasures bloom at the historic Casa de Oro.
The past tastes like sarsaparilla. It also tastes like rum butter and bubble gum. Best of all, no matter the flavor, it only costs a dime. Volunteer Martha Mosher says the stick candy, a best ...
Rooftops Come Alive
Living roofs could turn office buildings into elevated meadows.
>>HOME&GARDEN Early American pioneers traditionally cut their places out of nature rather than finding their place in it. Western Puritanical thought demanded sharp, delineated lines and borders between man and nature. Today, we’ve cut out ...
School of the Future
Chartwell’s new campus aims for top honors in green building.
>>HOME&GARDEN Between the piles of lumber and the Porta Potty, the whine of the drill and the bump of the boom-box, this looks and sounds like a normal commercial construction site. It’s not. Here, in ...
Two people make a dream come true in Oldtown.
When was the last time you had a sandwich on focaccia that had just come out of the oven? Not the sandwich, the focaccia. Or steamed up your car windows on the way to the ...
ONSTAGE: Political Movement
Fran Spector Atkins translates local tension into words and dance.
Voices of farmers and fieldworkers blend with guitar and percussion as three male dancers perform a series of lifts and turns. One dancer rises into the air before slowly collapsing onto the ground and rolling ...
The constitutional reform movement of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recently compared Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler. The same week, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) awarded President Chavez the Jose Marti Award recognizing the elimination ...
Our Own Masters
Our Own Masters
EXCELLENCE IS NOT PERFECT… Opening night of The Masters of Food and Wine remains a thrill, although each year I chuckle at the occasional detractors that spring up like bad mushrooms along a damp ridge. ...
Frontier Justice
With The Three Burials of Melaquiades Estrada, Tommy Lee Jones explores stark contrasts at the US southern boundary.
After a long and occasionally impressive career as an actor, stone-faced Texan Tommy Lee Jones makes his directorial debut with The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. It’s a story about living on an international border ...
Ex-Foreign Legion
Monterey’s seminal metal band returns and reunites.
Sitting outside of Morgan’s on a sunny winter afternoon, Mica Maniac and Gator Collier can recall the night when Monterey’s viral heavy metal music scene emerged from the underground. Maniac tugs at one of two ...
Reorganizing Labor Priorities
Following hotel chains’ lead, unions start thinking nationally and globally.
After decades on the decline, state labor unions are making a comeback. Strong evidence of a resurgence came last November, when labor groups joined forces to successfully trounce anti-union ballot propositions backed by Gov. Arnold ...
Marina-based group launches signature-gathering effort to put initiative on the November ballot.
The room at the Shoreline Conference Center in Marina is bursting with chairs, but only a small handful of people have shown up for the meeting. A row of water bottles and coke cans sit ...
StreetTalk
Asked at Grigg’s Nursery in Pacific Grove
Q: WHAT’S THE BEST GARDENING TIP YOU KNOW? Follow-up: If you could be any plant, what would you be? LORRAINE LARSON | Professional Gardener | Carmel Valley A: Pay attention to the weather when you’re ...
Constructive Materials
The green genius is in the details. And, according to Doug Atkins, Chartwell executive director, and James Moore, Ausionio Inc. project manager, those details are everywhere with Chartwell’s new campus: 1. Studly Reincarnation Conduits for ...
Future Fight
Big guns come out against ‘smart growth’ general plan initiative.
Supporters of the initiative that rewrites the county’s general plan took a beating last week when opponents launched their campaign to kill the anti-sprawl plan. The opposition group Plan for the People announced on Feb. ...
Metal Antichrist
Ex-P.O.D. guitarist’s new secular band at Lava Lounge
Back in February, 2003, the big news in the national metal scene was that hard rockers P.O.D., known for their 2001 hit single “Youth of the Nation,” were parting ways with guitarist Marcos Curiel. At ...
Local Spin
Sea Minus: Efforts to heal decimated oceans will be painful—especially for fishermen.
The first-ever National Oceans Summit took place in Monterey in June of 1998. Billed as a meeting of the nation’s top ocean scientists, who gathered to address a looming catastrophe, it also brought together the ...
ONSTAGE: Bringing the Heat
ODC/San Francisco takes on global warming.
When ODC Artistic Director Brenda Way initially envisioned a dance piece that would invoke global warming, she saw dancers moving about a stage blissfully unaware of a melting, 800-pound ice block suspended above their heads. ...
Above the Fold
Seaside High students reclaim the power of the pen.
The deadline is nigh. Bodies rush through the room. Computer keyboards quiver as hurried fingers punch in last-minute corrections to stories. And then, with only a few precious minutes left, a logjam of people gather ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
MAN EATER… Squid loves to rip other squids to shreds in public—and then eat them—but Squid had no idea you humans have the same vicious streak. Squid thought the whole evolution deal, or even just ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
THE AVETT BROTHERS | Four Thieves Gone | Ramseur Records The Avett Brothers are known for their incendiary live shows. There has not been a group that has set fire to so many Southeastern cities ...
Desal Project Stalled In Court
Save Our Waterfront lawsuit says Cannery Row plant will put the city at risk.
Community activist Barbara Evans worried that the city of Monterey didn’t do its homework before it approved a desalination plant project on Cannery Row. The desal plant, if built, will provide drinking water for Ocean ...
Public Citizen for Feb 23, 2006
Thursday 2|23 Marina on Tap for 2006 MARINA—In a city where big projects are going up fast, the Marina Planning Commission is at the center of things. Tonight, the commission lays out its goals for ...
OUTSIDE: A Higher Gear
Tour of California sends world-class bikers through world-class sights.
Think you’re a badass because you biked from Sand City to Asilomar? Think again. This Thursday, Feb. 23, 16 pro cycling teams ride from Cannery Row to, oh, San Luis Obispo. For those counting at ...
Aquarium works to change state and federal policy.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has begun thinking outside the tank. The advocacy arm of the aquarium, the Center for the Future of the Oceans, is taking its first swing at influencing major policy change by ...
Thursday, February 16
Carmel Parties Down
After 70 years, live music has returned to Carmel-by-the-Sea.
According to local lore, an occurrence back in the 1930s caused the Carmel-by-the-Sea City Council to adopt an ordinance forbidding live entertainment at any venue where alcohol was sold or served. Back then, Carmel had ...
SquidFry
PG PUB CRUSADE… Squid was enjoying a pleasant stroll around PACIFIC GROVE on Saturday morning when the comely-yet-sarcastic Squidette let fly with a typically funny bit of meanness. Regarding some “Road Closed” signs posted around ...
Steppes to Heaven
Amir’s guides a sublime journey to Afghanistan.
It had been months since Felix and I had last gotten together, so we knew when we stepped into Amir’s Kabob House on Lighthouse in Monterey that we would be lingering a few hours. You ...
Letters
NAME-CALLER IS PARANOID Jeffrey Van Middlebrook’s letter [Letters, Feb. 9-15] is regrettably typical of those who attempt to shout down the overwhelming scientific consensus regarding global warming. The “pseudo-science,” and “so-called evidence of this errant ...
Foodchain
Wall-to-Wall Goodness
IT’S LIKE A FANTASY…I am in it baby. I’m writing this during AT&T week and it’s appearing during Masters of Food and Wine week…Eeeeaggghhhh. You can feel the excitement in the very molecules of matter ...
Public Citizen for Feb 16, 2006
Thursday 2|16 Day Laborer Update SEASIDE—Two weeks after insinuations were made that Mayor Ralph Rubio hid a potential conflict of interest, and after fireworks flew regarding the day laborer issue, the City Council reconvenes. 7pm. ...
Limbo No More
This could be the year when county politics finally gets us somewhere.
>> THE LOCAL SPIN One perk of my job is that on deadline day, a guy comes in with a massage chair and sets up shop outside the classifieds department. We all take turns—10 minutes ...
Poison of Choice
EPA looks to beef up ban on methyl bromide and replace it with another pesticide.
Methyl iodide causes cancer. Some scientists say this pesticide fumigant is more dangerous than methyl bromide, another chemical which was supposed to be phased out years ago. But now, as it scrambles to find a ...
StreetTalk
Asked on Sixth Street at CSU Monterey Bay
Q: IF YOU COULD “DOMESTICALLY EAVESDROP” ON ANYONE, WHO WOULD IT BE? Follow-up: What is your favorite spy movie? RACHEL WOOD | Academic Advisor | Marina A: Any head of a major news media corporation. ...
Wrong Direction
Director Joe Roth heads into shakey territory with the tense racial drama Freedomland.
Over the past 20 years, Freedomland director Joe Roth has been head of production at 20th Century Fox and Disney, and created his own production shingle, Revolution Studios. As such, his primary job has been ...
Another World
Parents and schools struggle to find a place for more and more autistic kids.
He looks like a normal 12-year-old boy at first glance. But a mystery rages behind Felix Salaiz’ brown eyes. For the first two years of his life, Felix grew up as most children do. He’d ...
Salinas City Councilwoman looks to rally anti-sprawl vote.
Jyl Lutes realizes that she is taking a risk by challenging long-time County Supervisor Lou Calcagno for his District 2 seat, which encompasses North County and parts of Salinas. “I’m the David, he’s the Goliath,” ...
Killing Clean
Busting gophers the green way.
Some people think it’s so darn cute how gophers scramble across an open field and dive into their cozy little burrows. Not Jack Kimmich. Gophers fear this man. They run, but they can’t hide—at least ...
Sicilian Women and Families
Local author tells of a people who helped make Monterey.
831 >> TALES FROM THE AREA CODE Fresh biscotti and homemade persimmon bread sit on an island in Carol Lynn McKibben’s kitchen. McKibben baked the biscotti for her son who lives in San Francisco—“I’m not ...
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Real Estate
Wood and Sun
An enclave tucked into Seaside’s southernmost boundary is home to a real sleeper. Sonoma Avenue may appear to be just another unremarkable street, but in fact it’s an established, cohesive neighborhood replete with long-time, proud ...
Child's Play
The big screen adaptation of Curious George does the popular children’s books right.
It’s not perfect, but this big-screen debut of H.A. Rey’s lovable monkey is worth recommending to audiences of all ages, especially fathers and sons. Lovingly rendered by executive producer Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, the production ...
A Turning Point
Washington Republicans adopt a demeanor of brazen shamelessness as they attack the rule of law.
understand that all the folks at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend are busy celebrating their accomplishments. Since they live in the same overextended, widely hated, and increasingly impoverished nation that I do, where ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
ACEYALONE | Magnificent City | Decon/Project Blowed Magnificent City features a team-up worthy of legendary status—journeyman Freestyle Fellowship MC Aceyalone and DJ-savior-extraordinaire RJD2—not that you’d be able to tell from the cover. Instead, it’s Acey ...
Golf in God’s Kingdom
Life’s lessons felt sweet at the best Pro-Am ever.
Humility and great golf go together. Just ask any golfer who’s tried to bridge the cliffs at Pebble’s eighth hole without the right club or concentration—like Arron Oberholser, who did just that at the AT&T ...
Beginning this year, all high school seniors must pass state exit exam to receive a diploma.
Anyone who has thought today’s generation of California teenagers are intellectually challenged—or just plain dumb—may want to rethink that assumption. More than 90 percent of the state’s high school seniors have already passed at least ...
Swept Out To Sea
Steelhead die while the battle over breaching the Carmel Lagoon continues.
The waters of Carmel River’s coastal barrier lagoon are again muddied with controversy over how a catastrophic New Year’s Eve breach occured. Some say the County’s management plan failed when a controlled breach at the ...
Thursday, February 9
Big Burger Plus
Boadie’s dishes up proud American fare.
Boadie’s American Grill is just that: American. There is good red-meat eatin’ (Angus tri-tip and double-patty Bodacious Burgers) and fun-time excessiveness (chili cheese dogs and hand-scooped shakes). There’s great diversity on the big road map ...
Don’t Look Now
Class and wealth can’t keep world’s ills at bay in Caché.
No contemporary director can send an intellectual shiver down the spine like Michael Haneke. The Austrian filmmaker won the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Director prize this year for his most recent treatment of First World ...
Squidfry
FOOL ME THREE TIMES…Last week, at the insistence of County Supervisor Fernando Armenta, the supes agreed to look into a sales-tax measure to bail out Natividad Medical Center. County Treasurer Lou Solton has said he ...
Play a Round
The 69th annual AT&T Pro-Am promises more great in-between moments.
Of all places to end up on the fairway at Pebble Beach’s par-four 16th, Chi Chi Rodriguez’s golf ball rolled onto a piece of lettuce. But the charismatic Puerto Rican didn’t call for a ruling, ...
Supes table Citizens’ General Plan following unexplained letter from unknown source.
Anti-sprawl activists took another hit at last week’s Board of Supervisors’ meeting when the supes declined to put a general plan initiative on the June ballot. After receiving a 16-page letter from Rutan & Tucker, ...
Foodchain
Here It Is—All of It
IT’S THE BIG WEEKEND…AT&T baby. Put on your best golf attire and stroll around Pebble Beach like you’re a star. Although, there are those newbies who swarm Poppy, Spy and Pebble in all manner of ...
Black History Month still matters.
While reading an interesting story in the New York Observer about the overwhelming whiteness of the magazine industry, I noticed the prevalence of the phrase “people of color.” This term has become ubiquitous among progressives ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
THE GOURDS | Heavy Ornamentals | Eleven Thirty Records Over the course of their last seven albums, Austin, Texas’ The Gourds have established themselves as one of the most offbeat bands in the roots music/alt ...
Smalltown Hardrock
Pearls and Brass bring loud, complex riffs to Fernwood.
Nazareth is a town of 6,000 residents located in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, under the shadow of nearby Blue Mountain. With just four full-time police officers, Nazareth is known primarily as the home to three things: ...
Eyes of the Law
Sheriff’s Office is the first in the nation to use iris scans in jail.
The future is now at the Monterey County Sheriff’s Department. Iris scans, a technology once solely the domain of old science-fiction and spy movies, has put local law enforcement at the Monterey County jail on ...
Won’t Back Down
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, crusader against Republican corruption, comes to town.
Nancy Pelosi isn’t one to turn the other cheek. The House Democratic Leader is not afraid to take on the Bush Administration when it comes to the war on Iraq, the Medicare prescription drug plan, ...
A New Look
Curator looks to move MMA into the contemporary art world.
The latest exhibit at the Monterey Museum of Art, In Celebration of Light: Photographs from the Collection of Cherye R. and James F. Pierce, attests to the new direction the MMA is taking. Displayed in ...
Real Estate
A House That Lives
The 1894 house at 515 10th St. in Pacific Grove is remarkable for a variety of reasons, not the least being that it’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Or so ...
Positively Inspiring
From the Bataan Death March to the barbershop quartet.
831>>TALES FROM THE AREA CODE Ninety-one-year old Ted Pflueger has a passion for positive thinking. Surviving a war can have a way of doing that. In spring of 1942 Pflueger was a starved POW on ...
The Schlong Goodbye
Felicity Huffman shines as a transsexual parent awaiting a sex change in Transamerica.
In writer-director Duncan Tucker’s feature debut, Transamerica, a pre-op transsexual named Bree discovers that back when she was an experimental college student named Stanley, he fathered a son. When Bree agrees, at the insistence of ...
The Past is Now
David Ligare’s paintings come from the world where beauty was invented.
To his many admirers in the art world, David Ligare is the definitive Monterey County painter. wCurators and dealers represent him as a painter deeply rooted in this place—which is true, but also ironic, because ...
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StreetTalk
Asked at the Pebble Beach Golf Links’ Practice Green.
WHO WOULD YOU HAND-SELECT FOR YOUR FOURSOME AT THE AT&T PRO-AM? Follow-up: Who would you rather leave in the clubhouse? KATHY MOORE |Consultant | Charleston, S.C. A: Robin Williams, Mean Joe Greene and Fred Funk. ...
Grandma’s slippery understandings at the Erotic Arts Show.
No one really thought it was a good idea to bring Grandma along to the Erotic Art Show, but my mom and grandmother were in town, celebrating their birthdays, and I happened to be bellydancing ...
Anger and Honor: Nancy Pelosi brings fire to Monterey.
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi has a right to be the angriest woman in Washington. The minority leader of the House of Representatives—the first woman to hold that post—faces a belligerent majority that has done everything it ...
Smart and Greasy
Little Feat carries on in its founder’s funky tradition.
Lowell George, who founded Little Feat in 1969, is one of those almost mythic rock characters. Before forming the popular eclectic southern boogie-and-blues outfit, George had been a member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention. ...
Letters
Day Laborers Should Be Evicted; Weekly Should Lay Off the Spin I found this piece “Problem Building” [Feb. 2-8] incredibly silly and slanted as Vasquez has been known to do with other issues. The property ...
Marina’s Airport Business Park waits behind the city’s other housing developments.
Marina is famously destined to become the largest city on the Monterey County coastline. Thanks to a slew of major development projects—like Marina Heights, University Villages and Cypress Knolls—nearly 4,000 new housing units will be ...
Check, Please
Salinas residents give their two cents about how to spend $10 million from sales tax.
It should have been standing room only in the theater at Everett Alvarez High School in Salinas on Feb. 6. It wasn’t even close. The Monday night meeting was designed to hear residents’ input about ...
Thursday, February 2
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
THE GOURDS | Heavy Ornamentals | Eleven Thirty Records Over the course of their last seven albums, Austin, Texas’ The Gourds have established themselves as one of the most offbeat bands in the roots music/alt ...
Light and Darkness
Yoga is an inspiration and the subject of PG artist’s show.
Gothic art goddess Jennifer Sullivan’s feeling the love these days, and her new paintings reflect a newfound tranquility. Featuring brighter colors, beatific smiles, calm expanses of blue sky, and a serene stillness, Sullivan’s two new ...
Lotsa Stuff to Do
TWO BIG HITS… Oh it’s an exciting time of the year. Just around the corner are two of my favorite things: the AT&T and the Masters of Food and Wine at Highlands Inn. That brings ...
The Dirty Work
How the young scion of a local food-and-wine family cracked the wine industry—the hard way.
When Megan Walter gets excited—as she often does when talking about food and wine—her eyes flicker, and a light Australian drawl sneaks into her speech. During four years at the University of Adelaide in Southern ...
Real Estate
Buried Treasure
On a sunny January morning, Juan Guerrero stands in the yard of his Seaside home and flips a switch. A few moments later, water starts to circulate in a multi-leveled stone pond in the center ...
Sand City Police and local kids come together daily.
Police Chief Michael Klein is yelling at a middle school-aged student. And the kid is smiling. “Eric!” Klein yells from an open window in his office, tossing him a box of fruit juice as he ...
Rambling Stones
After getting the boot at the Barnyard, PG diver’s jade makes its way home.
Legendary diver and sculptor Don Wobber likes to say he’s “jade rich, but cash poor.” The 76-year-old Pacific Grove man has even more jade on hand than usual these days because of the sale of ...
Seaside group to hold vigil that highlights rising minority AIDS infections.
The odds of being infected with HIV or developing AIDS shouldn’t hinge on the color of your skin. But they do. African-Americans today account for nearly half of all new HIV/AIDS cases in the US, ...
Nature’s Wildest Gift
Why wild mushrooms are highly prized, super-expensive—and free.
food&wine There are mushrooms, according to legend, that will show you the face of God. There are others that will kill you dead, painfully. But certain mushrooms, with a little butter and garlic, are simply ...
The Big Bad Pig
Hollywood and video games present a parental challenge.
831 >> TALES FROM THE AREA CODE Pig in the city,” I whisper to myself. “This is going to be a slam-dunk.” It’s just before 10am on a sunny Saturday morning. I am driving toward ...
The Creative Balance
A conversation with chef Walter Manzke, one of Monterey County’s (and the world’s) top food artists.
food&wine Walter Manzke defies the stereotypical image of the stern kitchen tyrant. He wears a perpetual smile that seems to light up his clear, wise eyes. Manzke is soft-spoken, thoughtful, patient and generous—traits that, when ...
Taking the US Outback
Former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq brings his ‘lightning rod’ politics to Monterey.
Rare is the public figure who can thrill policy wonks and rabble-rousers at the same time. Richard Butler, the illustrious former chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq, is coming to Monterey on Tuesday to ...
SquidFry
>>SEND SQUID A TIP: squid@mcweekly.com JUDGMENT DAY… Squid was very excited to see Monterey County’s own judicial princess, THE HONORABLE WENDY DUFFY, on the front page of the SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS last Thursday with ...
Political consultant accuses anti-sprawl activists of discrimination.
Carlos Ramos set off on a fishing expedition last week at the Board of Supervisors meeting. Early on Jan. 24, the supervisors agreed to put Rancho San Juan on the June ballot. This surprised no ...
Public Citizen for Feb 02, 2006
Thursday 2|2 Debating Science and Politics SEASIDE—Is evolution an indisputable fact, or is that idea not any more scientifically sound than Eve being born out of Adam’s rib? Dr. Lawrence E. Susskind, professor at MIT, ...
Problem Building
Day laborers crowd Seaside parking lot while city looks for a fix.
They’ve been there for years. Day laborers, standing at the corner of Fremont Boulevard and Echo Avenue in Seaside, in front of the 7-Eleven store. Mostly Spanish-speaking immigrants, most of them without working papers, waiting ...
StreetTalk
Asked at the Pebble Beach Post Office
Q: WHAT’S YOUR IDEAL FOOD AND DRINK COMBINATION? Follow-up: What food would you be? STEVE COONEN | Presidio Inspector General | Monterey A: Filet mignon, herbed mixed green salad, a whole wheat roll, and glass ...
Nothing New
Newcomers fumble romantic race relations in Something New.
In the past, films about interracial love have been few and far between. Last year’s update on Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner did a reversal on Stanley Kramer’s 1967 original so that a young black ...
Big Burger Plus
Boadie’s dishes up proud American fare.
Boadie’s American Grill is just that: American. There is good red-meat eatin’ (Angus tri-tip and double-patty Bodacious Burgers) and fun-time excessiveness (chili cheese dogs and hand-scooped shakes). There’s great diversity on the big road map ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: Artistas Unidos | Back Porch Fabrics | Breakthrough | Carmel Art Association | Carmel Foundation | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Concepts Carmel ...
XL Party Plans
The playbook for the pop culture sports party of the year.
Out of the 32 teams in the National Football League, only the Seattle Seahawks and the Pittsburgh Steelers have made it all the way to this year’s Super Bowl XL in Detroit. They didn’t make ...
Letters
OUR NEW LOOK: WORTH THE PRICE To all the folks at the Monterey County Weekly: Congratulations on a superb redesign! You’ve touched every base: whiter paper stock, sharply organized contents, a terrific mission statement and ...
Abandon Ship
Abandon Ship Annapolis sinks to the bottom due to a ridiculous script filled with clichés.
Justin Lin’s promising 2002 film Better Luck Tomorrow—about a group of overachieving Asian-American schoolkids who get wrapped up in a murder—never fully engaged me while managing to woo other critics (and more than a few ...
We now rejoin “Doonesbury,” which is already in progress.
>> THE LOCAL SPIN I say “rejoin” for two reasons: first, because the strip has been absent from Monterey County for a few weeks (more on that later); and also because some of us haven’t ...
Whatever It Takes
For some of us, Sunday’s Super bowl is more than a game.
When I say that I became a Steelers fan the day I was born, that isn’t an exaggeration. In fact, it might have started earlier that season. I was born in Pittsburgh on a Sunday ...
Eric Burdon’s Return
The legendary ‘60s icon is back as a blues man.
Eric Burdon has been many things over the course of his career. In the ‘60s, Burdon arrived as part of the British Invasion, with his band The Animals, who recorded classic songs like “House of ...
